Seems that my mysterious symptoms may be caffeine withdrawl! Bizarre, but highly possible considering my coffee habits have changed considerably in the past few weeks. A long a dull day, but good to see some friendly faces at the end of the day. One of the most frustrating and excrutiating things possible must be wanting desperately to fix things for someone you care about but being pretty much unable to. I mention this only because I'm trying to find silver linings as ever. Ought to be releasing gwvedit - or at least fixing the mess I've made of the autoconf stuff, but just can't be bothered in the face of such frustration.
Again, a productive day. Managing to mostly divert my attention by applying myself to work and generally filling the day with tiny but significant tasks. Further diverted today by arrival of memory and keyboard. Getting used to both now, and the whole system feels somewhat more responsive - which is nice. Sad thing is in a week or two I probably won't notice - such is progress I guess! Irrational doubts as ever tonight - perhaps it's a Tuesday thing? Perhaps I don't know how lucky I am to have escaped some of the bizarre stuff which has happened to me? Bumped by chance into someone I went to school with today, who has achieved a great deal despite appearing to have no idea what she wanted to do back then. Consoled myself by learning how to map the sterling sign onto other keys...
Managed to get quite a bit of work done before hospital appointment - which predictably took a long time, but finally sees an end to the whole silly broken arm episode, as the consultant discharged me. A bit more physio, but otherwise I can expect gradual improvement over the coming months and no long-term damage. Played with gnome-vfs quite a bit, but try as I might cannot get sensible things out of a GnomeVFSFileInfo struct. It's driving me nuts, but I know its almost certainly my fault. Don't think I've got a full hit of the locally prevalent virus, but felt pretty useless all day, and had some - well, symptoms shall we say? Feel exhausted and ready for sleep.
Industrious day. Cleaned everything. Attempted to iron stuff - not as easy as it looks. Spent a long time typing for money - its hard to work on something you perhaps wouldn't normally read and not feel the urge to edit it! Still, its money - and that's a sorely needed commodity here right now. What looked like a nasty bug in gtkdial turns out to be a strange error generated by YaST (the SuSE config tool) and the way it sets up modems. Events early in the day remind me how much is very uncertain still, despite the relative peace and stability which seem to have descended here lately.
Lost::MikeGTN
I've had a home on the web for more years than I care to remember, and a few kind souls persuade me it's worth persisting with keeping it updated. This current incarnation of the site is centred around the blog posts which began back in 1999 as 'the daylog' and continued through my travels and tribulations during the following years.
I don't get out and about nearly as much these days, but I do try to record significant events and trips for posterity. You may also have arrived here by following the trail to my former music blog Songs Heard On Fast Trains. That content is preserved here too.
